Kirsten Dunst shares her favourite filming expertise — the film Melancholia — in an ironic remark. This 12 months, the 43-year-old star was a co-lead with Channing Tatum in the dead of night comedy film Roofman, following her main position in Alex Garland’s 2024 critically acclaimed political thriller Civil Struggle. Earlier than that, Dunst’s final film was 2021’s The Energy of the Canine, an Oscar Greatest Image nominee.
Dunst has had a really lengthy profession as she was first a notable little one star, nonetheless remembered for motion pictures together with Jumanji, Interview with the Vampire, and Little Ladies. As a younger girl, she turned a frequent collaborator of Sofia Coppola, starring in The Virgin Suicides and Marie Antoinette. Dunst additionally made her mark enjoying Mary Jane Watson in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy.
However apparently, the film Dunst had one of the best time filming is an underseen sci-fi tragedy from 2011. When requested on the podcast SmartLess if she considered any job because the “best expertise of [her] entire profession to this point,” Dunst responded: “I do not know, trigger motion pictures aren’t enjoyable to make, what I imply?“ Nonetheless, Melancholia was significantly low-key and intimate.
Dunst continues: “I preferred making Melancholia. It was like this little remoted…it felt like we had been doing a play, all of us lived on this small city in Sweden on this lodge/housing place, and it was similar to cozy and actually calm and so […] I do not know, I simply felt like ‘Oh, that is what it may very well be like’.” She additionally provides that they “had been there in the summertime, so [they] had a fantastic Swedish summer time.“
Melancholia is a contained narrative, specializing in a marriage celebration after which the tense aftermath between just a few relations. Sisters Justine (Dunst) and Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg) are navigating a strained relationship, staying at Claire and her husband John’s (Kiefer Sutherland) property. Nonetheless, their time is restricted as one other planet is hurtling in the direction of Earth.
Directed by Lars von Trier (Antichrist, Dogville), Melancholia additionally stars Brady Corbet, Alexander Skarsgård, and Stellan Skarsgård, and has a 79% on Rotten Tomatoes. It grossed $21 million worldwide on an estimated $9 million finances, making for an unremarkable theatrical launch. Nonetheless, the film has gained extra recognition over time.
Whereas an unconventional film like Melancholia will be the most gratifying to movie for Dunst, she is returning to the kind of undertaking she is thought for. Dunst and Coppola are set to reunite for a fifth film sooner or later, following 2013’s The Bling Ring and 2017’s The Beguiled. Nonetheless, film fanatics mustn’t neglect to take a look at maybe the star’s most underrated undertaking.
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November 11, 2011
- Runtime
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130 minutes
- Director
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Lars von Trier
- Writers
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Lars von Trier
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Charlotte Gainsbourg
Claire
